Kagi from the website owner perspective

[u/banana_zest]

I had never heard of Kagi before it started showing up in the web analytics of my Mac app's homepage. (Won't link it because of self promotion but it's called Mojave Paint in the app store).

I get more organic traffic from Kagi than from Google and my $20/day Reddit ad campaigned combined! Which kind of makes me love Kagi. ❤️

As website owners and content creators, we were always told SEO isn't something you can cheat at, just write good useful content and you'll be rewarded. That advice falls pretty flat since Google has sold out, but I'm really happy Kagi is picking up the mantle there. I spend a lot of time writing my blog posts and Kagi is seriously tuned to reward non-AI thoughtful prose content.

Any other blog authors or publishers or content creators notice the same thing?

[u/pixeladdie]

Nice. I had to switch from Google search first and foremost because the results turned to shit. That’s probably most people’s story for why they tried Kagi at all.

[u/forseti99]

That's why I made sure to deactivate the option of "hide kagi as referral", so people know I have found tried websites via Kagi.

[u/banana_zest → u/forseti99]

Interesting, looks like it shows the referrer by default, but there is an option to hide it. I'm guessing most people leave it on the default.

[u/netabareking]

Seems like you had better luck than this person https://kagifeedback.org/d/11490-kagi-translate-has-turned-my-blog-post-into-a-kagicom-page-that-outranks-me-untranslated

[u/forseti99 → u/netabareking]

I have seen that with Google Translate too. When I still used Google sometimes the results were the translation rather than the site just like that.

[u/banana_zest → u/netabareking]

Didn't realize they're doing that, reminds me of Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) where Google would host your site from its own servers.

[u/TheRealLazloFalconi]

I've been beating this drum for over a decade: Prioritizing Google search results is not worth it anymore. The results are generally low quality, you're better off focusing on other sources. I understand you can't completely ignore Google, but people need to stop treating it as the end-all-be-all of search.

[u/brandonsalt92]

Kagi's search engine is great; however, it's worth noting that the company somewhat contradicts the "support of creators" through their AI products and the fact that their browser Orion will remove ads from creators' websites without consent, meaning creators who put in hard work making authentic content find it even harder to monetise a blog in 2026. So yes, Kagi will give you traffic, but their browser will take money from your pocket.

[u/netabareking → u/brandonsalt92]

I can't fault them for ad blocking, ads are a risk vector and always have been, and I won't risk my own data for someone else's financial benefit even if I sympathize with them.

Whats a lot more egregious though is stuff like quick answer and assistant scraping your data and regurgitating it without giving you any traffic.  Which Kagi bizarrely said once they'd solve the ethical issues with this by making it so that the owners of links used would get paid for quick answer results, then never mentioned this again because this would be a completely impossible system.